Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germans hope of unity, which all ardently desire, while offering the French a fresh excuse to delay still longer their agonizing decision over Germany, The Soviet anti-London tactics did not stop with Molotov. In the United Nations. Andrei Vishinsky revived the debate (and with it the soul-searching) of atomic age disarmament simply by suggesting that Moscow might, with certain vague exceptions, be willing to come a little closer to the West's terms. Thus the Communists offered ammunition to Europe's neutralists and hope to the millions everywhere who knew too little to see the true...
...Soul of a Soldier. But even this devious approach failed to swing the Assembly. From two directions at once, the opposition hit at Mendès and the London plan. On one side were Communists and Pacifists-mostly among the Socialists-who oppose all German rearmament, on the other, the "Europeans"-mainly of the Catholic M.R.P. As champions of EDC, the Europeans could not forgive the Premier who had presided. Pilate-like, over the death of EDC and who now pleaded for their support for a new European alliance, shorn of most of the safeguards that had distinguished...
Ugetsu. A weird and lovely Japanese film; in an Oriental spirit, the camera meditates the eye of a hurricane in a human soul (TIME, Sept...
Watching the busy calisthenics of the Moslems at prayer, Asad once asked an old Mecca pilgrim the reason for all the physical activity. "How else then should we worship God?" he replied. "Did He not create both soul and body together? And this being so, should not man pray with his body as well as with his soul...
...Leopold Weiss, Asad had flirted with conversion to Christianity, which he found superior to Judaism "in that it did not restrict God's concern to any one group of people." But one thing put him off: "The distinction it made between the soul and the body, the world of faith and the world of practical affairs." Not so Islam. "Nowhere in the Koran could I find any reference to a need for 'salvation.' No original, inherited sin stood between the individual and his destiny ... No asceticism was required to open a hidden gate to purity: for purity...